Hamilton is not close to Buffalo & nethier is Toronto to close Hamilton in fact they are just about the right distance from Hamilton that it will not impact them at all . Because all this crap about territory rights to the Hamilton market where manufactured by Harold Ballard & Seymore Knox because one Ballard wanted the city to flip the bill for a new stadium for the tiger cats in exchange to waiveing his NHL. territory rights to Hamilton & the city would not do it so along with Seymore Knox who just wanted to keep Hamilton open just in case things did not work in Buffalo so he would have a cheap move blackballed Hamilton to this very day . Hopefully one of theses days Hamilton will get the NHL. team that it has been fighting for the past 30 years & I sse that day comming up within the next 5 years .